The Mail said the first column by the former prime minister, for Saturday’s paper, would appear online this evening.
It has emerged that Mr Johnson has not cleared the job with the watchdog that vets former ministers’ appointments.
The Advisory Committee on Business Appointments (Acoba) is looking into whether he has broken the rules.
The committee previously found Mr Johnson broke the rules after taking up a £275,000 a year column with the Telegraph weeks after standing down as foreign secretary.
The committee has no powers to punish MPs - or former MPs - who have broken the rules over taking up jobs but can issue public rebukes.
Rebukes don’t bother BJ …
The Times sacked Boris Johnsonin 1988 for making up a quote in a front-page story.
The then-journalist, aged 23, fabricated a claim by his godfather, academic Colin Lucas, that Edward II and his lover Piers Gaveston would have cavorted in a newly discovered Rose Palace.
In what he later called “my biggest cock-up”, it emerged the Palace was only built long after Gaveston was murdered.
I was told a rumour about this a day or two ago but I thought it may just be gossip.
From The Telegraph to The Daily Mail, eh - I think he’ll fit in well there and give his readers what they want.
But there is always space in media for the vile and the extremists. It’s populism, cashing in on their notoriety and they’re just freaks for the freak show really
Look at Katie Hopkins, Nigel Farage, Laurence Fox, all with media platforms, all trotted out to please the ignorant mob watch GBNews and reading the Mail
But such is life, I accept there’s no justice. I’m just glad he’s not disgracing our country as PM anymore
There was a poem my dad used to like called the Jackdaw of Rheims where the Cardinal lays a curse on whoever stole his ring. These are my very wishes for Johnson
He is so arrogant that he is treating us all like idiots and with total contempt.
We need to get rid of not only him, but all the others like him, Liz Truss, JRM, Nadine.
It is not just us, the little people he holds in contempt, he held the Queen in contempt as well.
She obeyed the rules, as did so many long term married who lost their partners when he was partying, the children who could not see elderly parents in the Nursing Homes etc etc.
He has caused so much trouble in the Conservative Party.
The on the ground activists are not going to be out, they are as fed up as everyone else.
Johnson said: “I may even have to cover politics, but I’ll obviously try to do that as little as possible unless I absolutely have to.”
In his opening column, the former prime minister made good on that promise, steering clear of politics and the events of the past week altogether.
Instead, he wrote of his experience trying a weight-loss drug which, he said, worked “miraculously” for one of his cabinet ministers, but not for him.
“I was going to search for the hero inside myself - the one that was three stone lighter. I was going to locate that svelte and dynamic version of Johnson, imprisoned for decades in pointless extra body weight, and I was going to set him free,” wrote the former MP.
He said he had to give up injecting the fluid into his stomach once a week “because they were making me feel ill”, but still believed such drugs could be “transformative”.
“But fear not, my dear compatriots, for I, Boris Johnson, have taken up the mantle of championing the cause of flab fightingJust as I have tackled the Herculean task of Brexit and navigated the treacherous waters of pandemic response, I now turn my attention to the neglected corners of being a lard arse.”
The former prime minister has revealed how he used semaglutide in an attempt to shed excess weight in recent years.
Boris Johnson has explained that he was prescribed the drug in a bid to stifle his hunger and lose weight. After getting a prescription and taking weekly jabs, Mr Johnson says he began to lose “four or five pounds a week”.
But he began to “dread the injection” and started vomiting - which he attributes to excessive travelling and changing time zones. He has now returned to “exercise and willpower” in his attempt to change his physique.
Extracts from the long article
Ozempic blew up last year - if media reports from the US are to be believed, every pound dropped in LA was probably thanks to the “miracle” injectable drug.
Like Ozempic and Wegovy, it suppresses the appetite and lengthens the amount of time food stays in the stomach, leading to weight loss - at least for as long as you carry on taking it.
In terms of weight loss, in clinical trials people lost up to 20% of their body weight on tirzepatide and 15% on semaglutide.
There are a few downsides. First off, the listed side effects: nausea, vomiting and diarrhoea, bad enough for about 5% of people in the semaglutide trial to stop taking it and 6-7% in the tirzepatide trial.
The drugs also carry serious risks including kidney failure, pancreatitis and thyroid cancer.
Another downside has been dubbed “Ozempic face”. Facial aging is a side effect of sudden weight loss as people find the skin on their face sagging where once it was plump.
The drugs also only work for as long as you carry on taking them, and people have reported gaining back all the weight they lost after stopping the drug - either out of choice or because of a supply shortage.
My neighbour has done about 6 weeks on these daily injections and lost less than 7 lbs. First month was on the lowest dosage, now she has gone up to next stage. They cost her £170 a month. Like Boris, they are not working for her so after this month she is not buying any more.
